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'Real Housewives'' Lisa Hochstein On Fertility Struggles & More

Plus, the "boob god's" wife gives an update on the couple's Tony Montana home drama.

On the last season of The Real Housewives of Miami, viewers were introduced to Lisa Hochstein, the bubbly 30-year-old wife of famed plastic surgeon Lenny Hochstein. The tiny fitness fanatic is currently working on expanding her health and beauty brand, while continuing to push forward with her plans to move into Tony Montana's house on Miami Beach's fancy schmancy Star Island. Except it's not Tony Montana's house.

"It drives us nuts. Apparently this home was in a background of a scene in that movie. It is not the actual house where Tony Montana got shot up by all of those drug lords," Lisa explains to YourTango about her casa complications after a Miami Beach Review Board halted the Hochsteins plans to demolish the 87-year-old home featured in Scarface, in favor of leaving the iconic (or not) house untouched.

"If anyone does their research, you will see that is not the house. It makes it seem like it's such a historical landmark … which it's not,” Hochstein continues. "It's falling apart … we put our hands into the wall and we were pulling the wall apart, infested with cockroaches, the air conditioning is not functional … it's just a house that's not salvageable."

After winning their dispute against preservationists, Lisa and Lenny are cautiously optimistic. "We're very happy about [the win], but it's not over yet ... we would like to start construction in the next few months, but you just don't know with these things. It's so unpredictable."

As is, unfortunately, Lisa's timeline to start a family. Married since 2009, the couple hoped to have two children by now but instead—for no known medical cause—they're struggling to conceive. Here, Lisa opens up about maintaining a positive outlook while putting surrogacy conversations on the table.

YourTango: Mother's Day is soon approaching. Is that a difficult day for you?Lisa Hochstein: I'm trying to become a mother, so of course not having our child yet is difficult. But I also try to celebrate my own mother, and I try to focus and stay positive because to me, it's her day. If I can, I will fly to Canada or I'll fly her here. I just really try to focus on the person that gave me life.

YourTango: What is the latest with your IVF treatments?Lisa Hochstein: We're still actively trying the IVF. We're going to do another cycle, and we're always trying things that are different. We're hoping that this time around, we'll have a good outcome and have a little baby boy or girl. These things take time, and I've talked to many women and I've realized that we're not alone. A lot of women have tried countless times and eventually it happens for them, so I like to keep that in the back of my mind. It helps me stay positive to know that other people are going through the same thing. This stuff happens. Keep reading ...

1. The Bill Cosby Rape Allegations

This is easily the biggest celebrity scandal of the year. Everyone was shocked and horrified when a woman accused Bill Cosby of raping her years ago — and we were even more disgusted and surprised when a whole slew of women came out of the woodwork saying the same thing. Our goofy childhood hero turned into someone we just couldn't look at without feeling incredibly disappointed and creeped out.

2. The Solange and Jay Z Elevator Fight

After a glamorous night at the Met Ball, Solange and Jay Z shocked everyone by getting into a physical fight in an elevator. Grainy video footage showed the two arguing over something, and then showed Solange repeatedly hitting and punching Jay Z, all while Beyonce stood still in the background. We'll never know what was said in that elevator, or what they were fighting about, but we'll definitely always want to know.

3. Ray Rice Domestic Abuse Case

The world was collectively horrified when we found out that Ray Rice had physically abused his then-fiancee Janay by punching her so hard she was knocked to the ground. Ray was handed a two-game suspension by the NFL, but when TMZ released the video footage of the physical fight, we discovered that the NFL may have been trying to protect him for the sake of football. What's even more sad is that Ray and Janay are married now.

4. Giant Celebrity Nude Photo Hack

Labor Day went from a relaxing end of the summer weekend to the center of one of the biggest celebrity scandals of the year when hackers released hundreds of private photos of naked celebrities. Jennifer lawrence was undoubtedly the biggest victim of the hack, with hundreds of her naked photos released on the Internet. Other victims included Kate Upton, Gabrielle Union, Rihanna, Kim Kardashian, and more… the list is too long. This huge invasion of privacy resulted in some really gross Reddit threads, including the biggest one called "The Fappening" that held all of the illegal photos. We still feel sorry for J.Law and everyone else who was involved.

5. Willow Smith's Weird Photoshoot

In May of 2014, 13-year-old Willow Smith was seen in two photos lying in bed with 20-year-old Moises Arias (the actor best known for his role as Rico in Hannah Montana). Although they weren't touching or anything, the poses in the photo were inappropriate because of the age difference. Everyone was so freaked out that Child Protective Services reportedly started investigating the incident.

6. Joe and Teresa Giudice Sentencing

It was no secret that Joe and Teresa Giudice, of Real Housewives of New Jersey fame, were in a ton of legal trouble for bankruptcy and fraud. This year, we watched as they were sentenced to jail time, as well as fines and supervised probation.

7. The Stephen Collins Child Molestation Claims

One of the biggest scandals of the year was easily hearing Stephen Collins, who played the dad from 7th Heaven, confess to child molestation on tape. During a marriage therapy session, Collins confessed to molesting an 11-year-old girl (a relative of his first wife) more than once. He also confessed to molesting another 12-year-old girl. It doesn't matter how long ago it happened — it was a truly terrible story.

8. Shia LaBeouf's Rape Claims

Shia LaBeouf did a lot of strange things this year, but the most noteworthy thing he said were his claims about being raped. Shia claimed that a woman raped him at an art project where he wore a bag over his head, and artists backed him up. It was a sad reminder that men are victims of sexual assault also.

9. Kim Kardashian's Naked Paper Magazine Cover

Just a few months ago, Kim Kardashian attempted to break the Internet by appearing completely naked on the cover of Paper magazine. Unfortunately for Kim, most people weren’t surprised by her attention-seeking photos. What did break the Internet? The hilarious memes that were inspired by her photoshoot.

10. Mama June Possibly Dating A Rapist

In 2015, we went from joking about Honey Boo Boo's family to being legitimately concerned for their safety. After splitting from her husband in September, in October June "Mama June" Shannon was seen with a man who had recently been released from jail and who had previously been convicted of child molestation. As the details unfolded, they only got worse — we discovered that he had been convicted of molesting one of Mama June's own relatives, who was 8 years old at the time. We still don't know exactly what's going on, but TLC has released a statement that they’ve stopped production on Here Comes Honey Boo Boo for now.

11. Justin Bieber's DUI

2014 was definitely not Justin Bieber's year. He started off the year by getting a DUI in Miami, and a mugshot of him grinning ear-to-ear was released to the public. A few months later, his deposition video for earlier crimes was released and we were all surprised to see the pop star acting like a total jerk. Things still haven't improved for him, honestly ... but he still made $85 million this year. Life isn't fair.

12. Donald Sterling's Racist Remarks

In April, TMZ released audio of Donald Sterling making offensive and racist comments against V. Stiviano, his personal assistant. The outrage was immediate, and sponsors quickly started dropping the Clippers — even the head coach said he wouldn't stick around. The NBA ended up giving him an indefinite suspension, along with a huge fine.

13. Amanda Bynes' Rape Allegations

We wish Amanda Bynes; return to Twitter was less dramatic, but unfortunately it wasn't. After keeping quiet for a while, Amanda started tweeting again. Although much of her thoughts didn't make sense, what stood out were her claims that her father molested her. Since then, both Amanda and her mother have denied these claims.

This is easily the biggest celebrity scandal of the year. Everyone was shocked and horrified when a woman accused Bill Cosby of raping her years ago — and we were even more disgusted and surprised when a whole slew of women came out of the woodwork saying the same thing. Our goofy childhood hero turned into someone we just couldn't look at without feeling incredibly disappointed and creeped out.